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Editorial
It’s Time For Tough Talk About Gravity Distribution
Systems are sized assuming even distribution along drainfield lines. How often do the results match the assumption?
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Food Plant Expansion Prompts Addition of Orenco AdvanTex System
Large tankage, and wood chip denitrification and alkalinity augmentation help efficiently handle effluent for the Oregon commercial system
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Installer James Stiksma Employs a Telehandler Unit to Apply Materials Without Trampling a Large Sand Bed
A Canadian pipeline job forces relocation and supersizing of an onsite system serving two homes on one property
Editorial
Root Intrusion or Root Canal? They’re Both Painful for Installers.
Make sure to check every connection for watertightness or you risk costly callbacks and crabby customers when roots fill a pipe
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School Customers About Onsite System Freezing Issues
Sure, it’s the middle of summer. But it’s a good time to prepare yourself for inevitable questions about frozen pipes.
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Septic Makeover at a Presidential Mountain Retreat
Historic preservation rules dictated minimal landscape changes for a new onsite system at Dwight Eisenhower cottages in Colorado’s high country
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Onsite Designer Is Left High and Dry With Grand Canyon Cabins Project
AeroCell unit, GeoFlow drip system are employed to overcome poor soils at group of vacation rentals
Editorial
Avoid Digging Deep When Designing Drainfields
Keeping the trenches shallow allows the trench bottom to be located above the required separation distance from a limiting soil layer
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Don’t Turn Bedrock Into a Money Pit
Careful planning with architects, engineers and designers is critical to making sure tricky systems in rocky soil remain profitable for the installer
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Steep Maine Hillside Requires Carving a Flat Drainfield Bed
Jackson Excavating worked machines carefully in sandy loam while battling a 15% grade during installation of an Eljen system
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Bringing Summer Camp Systems Back to Clean and Efficient Service
Indiana installers band together to provide charity system upgrades valued at $250,000
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Product Focus - January 2022
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Now It’s Prime Real Estate
Sand filter modules turn a devalued Georgia lot into a profitable lakefront property
